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March Is the Time for Maple Syrup

Cooking Light - February 17, 2012

March in New England brings sugar season. Nights remain cold, but warming days signal time to tap the maple trees. Many maple syrup producers have been at it for generations and still do much of the work manually, collecting sap daily by hand, bucket by bucket. Then water is boiled off, leaving behind the amber gold. Of course, old-fashioned is as trendy with syrup as it is with cheese or bread.

Did you know that small-batch maple syrup producers have joined the rising tide of artisans across the land, trying things like whiskey-barrel aging to set their products apart from the pack. (Fancy prices are included.) Here are two standouts:

CROWN MAPLE SYRUP - DARK AMBER, GRADE A

Dark Amber syrup is velvety thick with flavors of butterscotch and caramel and the faintest coffee bite in the finish. The producers have taken the trouble to have their land certified, so you know that every drop is organic. (12-ounce bottle: $18, crownmaple.com)